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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m going to give an alternative perspective.

My college aged child spent a week in a psych institution as a middle schooler.  The schools are now extremely paranoid about kids expressing self harm and some counselors will report basically anything as a red flag.  The hospitals don’t have pediatric psych people and are very nervous about being sued, so again if a kid is expressing anything like self harm they will get a referral. I was told that if I did not agree to admission, they would call CPS and do the admission over my objection and I would lose control over anything to do with treatment or discharge, so I caved.   Once you’re in, it’s a standard week to get a discharge due to the time for assessments and everything until they decide your kid is not a danger.  My kids level of suicidal thought was akin to or less than what basically all the girls I knew in middle school who were gojng through hormonal adjustment dealt with.  No one ever would have referred us to psych assessments.   The trigger now is much much much lower.

So if this was a one week hold situation, I would not assume this indicates a life long depression problem.  My kid does have some level of anxiety, which is what manifested in MS, but it’s very manageable.  [/quote]

That's kind of scary. How did the hospital get involved to begin with?[/quote]

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